taricheiai

Updated: May 13, 2025

And the priests told me, when I inquired, that the things concerning Helen happened thus: Alexander having carried off Helen was sailing away from Sparta to his own land, and when he had come to the Egean Sea contrary winds drove him from his course to the Sea of Egypt; and after that, since the blasts did not cease to blow, he came to Egypt itself, and in Egypt to that which is now named the Canobic mouth of the Nile and to Taricheiai.

Herodotus - An Account of Egypt